Deepika Mathur, PhD, is a bioinformatics scientist at the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center, part of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Her research uses computational and data-driven methods to better understand the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases. She is particularly interested in identifying biomarkers—measurable biological indicators of disease—and therapeutic targets that may improve the diagnosis, prediction, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Mathur earned a master's degree in biotechnology from Banaras Hindu University and a PhD in bioinformatics from the CSIR–Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR-IMTECH) in India. She completed postdoctoral research at Columbia University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she used integrative multi-omics approaches to study the genetic and molecular basis of complex diseases.